Game and library table.



I Patented Mar. l8, I902.

E. LOVER.

GAME AND LIBRARY TABLE.

(Application filed Mar. is, 1901 3 Sheets-850st I.

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GAME AND LIBRARY TABLE.

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EUsr'AcIIE LOYER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

GAME AND LIBRARY TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part f Letters Patent 110.695,?)72, dated March is, 1902. Application filed March 18,1901. Serial 110. 51,658. (No model.)

To all whont it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EUSTACHE LOYER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cleveland, county of Ouyahoga, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game and Library Tables, of which I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in combined billiard, pin-table, and library-table; and the objects of the invention are to combine in a parlor'game a portion of the billiard-shots with a pin game, thus making the pin game more interesting and requiring a greater amount of skill to play the game.

My invention consists in the combination and arrangement of the various parts and construction of details, as hereinafter described, shown in the-accompanying drawings, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device. Fig. 2 is a plan thereof, and Fig. 3 shows the manner of constructing a library-table to adapt it to the uses of the game.

In the views, 1 is the elevated portion of the table on which the game is played.

2 2 are the gutters forthe return of the ball after each shot.

3 represents the side rails which prevent the ball from rolling to the floor.

4 represents short billiard-cushions placed centrally at the sides of the elevated portion of the table from which a glancing shot can be taken. I

5. represents locations or spots for thepins, which are clearly marked upon the elevated table at one extremity and are placed in diamond form, one spot being centrally placed therein.

6 6 are side brackets to keep'the pins and balls from flying over the edge of the table when the pins are struck.

7 shows a cushioned headboard designed to prevent noise as the pins and balls strike thereon.

8 is a headboard which will prevent the pins and balls from going over the end of the table. A spot 9 at the end opposite the pins A locates the cue-ball, and a spot 10 centrally locatedbetween the side cushions locates the spotting-ball.

A line is indicated at 11, called the deadline, across which a ball must pass to make 1 a shot. not counted.

The pins are numbered and the shots may be made to count in any manner desired in whenthe sections are folded together, as shown in the figure. The face of the last section can be covered on the inner face with Any shots not passing the line are r felt to serve as a cushion 7 for the pins and balls. This forms a convenient article of furniture, and a shelf 14. underneath canbe used to hold the books and various articles on the table when it is in use as a game-board.v

At 13 are seen openings in the body of the table in which the cues can be stored when not in use to prevent their becoming damaged in any way.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is i In a combined billiard and pin table, a sectional folding top, constructed and arranged to form a headboard when folded, a cushion on the last segment, an elevated game-board, gutters on either side of the board, billiardcushions centrally placed on either side of the game-board, spots on said board for the placing of the pins and spotting and one balls, and receptacles in the table for the cues, substantially as described. Y

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to'this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EUSTACHE LOYER. 

